Ecovia Bio

Ecovia Bio, formerly Ecovia Renewables, is a private U.S. biotechnology and advanced materials company developing and commercializing biobased, biodegradable polymers made through microbial fermentation. The company emerged from University of Michigan research and focuses on polyglutamic acid-based materials positioned as alternatives to petrochemical polyacrylates and polyacrylamides. Its products target applications in personal care, hygiene, agriculture, packaging, food, medical, and industrial formulations rather than therapeutics. Ecovia markets its platform as feedstock-flexible and cost-effective, with an emphasis on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and microplastic pollution while improving product performance. The company appears to have moved from R&D into early commercial manufacturing and product sales, including U.S. production of polyglutamic acid materials.